Meaning not yet researched.
Cylus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,884 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,884 in 2012; #3,527 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cylus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,527 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,884.
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Cylus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,884 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 77 (2012).
In 2025, 32 US boys were named Cylus, making it the 3,527th most common boys’ name of the year, up 290 places from #3,817 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 29 boys named Cylus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,884, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #2,436 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cylus in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 6 babies. In all, 902 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 544 babies named Cylus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 394 US boys were named Cylus; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sylas (8,966 babies since 1880), Sylus (1,244 babies since 1880), Sylis (1,043 babies since 1880) and Cylas (1,034 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cellus are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cellus (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cylus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 32 | #3,527 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,817 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,904 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,226 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #2,986 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,771 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,905 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,387 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,022 |
| 2016 | — | — | 54 | #2,390 |
| 2015 | — | — | 52 | #2,436 |
| 2014 | — | — | 75 | #1,925 |
| 2013 | — | — | 59 | #2,212 |
| 2012 | — | — | 77 | #1,884 |
| 2011 | — | — | 65 | #2,061 |
| 2010 | — | — | 48 | #2,559 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,958 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,291 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,529 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #9,772 |
| 2005 | — | — | 12 | #6,303 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,273 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #8,840 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #7,787 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,336 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).